NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken showed up in Cape Canaveral, Florida, Wednesday, a week out from becoming the first U.S. astronauts to go to space atop a private U.S. company's rocket. The launch will mark a major shift in the U.S. space industry's public-private partnership, and it will test SpaceX's ability to safely send humans to space and back.
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NASA announces it's fixed a bug that corrupted Voyager 1's messages
Engineers had to rearrange code on one of Voyager's computers to avoid memory corruption. Now its science mission is set to continue.